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Re: [ST] The Smiley Bag incident



On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 02:17  am, Brad Turner wrote:

> Dave,
>
> I try not to dump it whilst riding in general much less for practice 
> or fun.
> For me I have found amateur road racing has been a big help in 
> learning not
> to panic in the first place. All kinds of shit happens on a track when
> nobody means for it to which forces you to learn to deal with surprise
> situations in a semi-controlled environment.
>
> For me the best braking drill I ever did was at a Freddie Spencer 
> school
> where we spent a few hours in the morning learning how to break very
> efficiently and VERY SMOOTHLY. While the purpose was centered around
> learning to go faster by minimizing chassis inputs while maximizing 
> braking
> the benefit has been many fold on the street as well.  ...

Perhaps all my tuning has been done for '80s Brembos rather than modern 
brakes.

I'll look to see if I can find any research on skilled behaviour in 
surprise situations. So far most of what I've come across relates to 
just reaction times or risk compensation.

Dave


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